Mia Love is, of course, a new member of Congress, but according to Daily Kos writer Denise Oliver-Velez, Rep. Love is less a legislator than a sellout who’ll serve as “another brown face to shove in front of the cameras” in the Republican party’s ongoing, insincere campaign to prove it cares about non-white people.
Oliver-Velez argued that Love won’t have much success in that role: “She certainly isn't going to convince any black folks who aren't Teapublican patsies already. Right-wing funders, including the Koch brothers, can buy mouthpieces of any color or background—take your pick…She's every bigot's Dreamgirl.” (FYI: Oliver-Velez is a onetime member of the Black Panther Party.)
From Oliver-Velez’s Sunday post (bolding added):
It is clear that Tea Party Republican Ludmya Bourdeau "Mia" Love, newly elected to Congress from Utah's 4th District, won't care what a vast majority of black folks think about her, since her job is to be trotted out and displayed as part of the faces of color brigade to prove that Teapublicans aren't bigots...
The Teapublican Party now has another brown face to shove in front of the cameras to somehow convince white people that the party isn't racist…
She certainly isn't going to convince any black folks who aren't Teapublican patsies already. Right-wing funders, including the Koch brothers, can buy mouthpieces of any color or background—take your pick…
She's every bigot's Dreamgirl.
…I feel sorry for her. Sort of. Her parents fled here to escape Papa Doc's Ton Ton Macoute, and didn't suffer the same fate as the "Haitian boat people." I can still see the images all those dead Haitians whose bodies washed up on the shores of Florida and remember with anger that most of those who made it alive were turned back (unlike the warm embrace we gave to anti-Fidelistas). She can count herself lucky, but instead she has embraced the gift to grift for the right wing on the bones of those who never made it…
…Black Americans have the right to be Republicans, join the Tea Party, and freely express the "why" of it. Women have a right to be actively anti-feminist. I have the right to critique the positions they take.
Mia Love, I dub thee hypocrite...
Love is caught in a trap of her own making. Perhaps she does believe her race has nothing to do with anything. But then why did she become a part of the Reince Priebus' fantasy plans for Republican minority outreach?...
Let me repeat those words from my beloved Zora Neale [Hurston], whose birthday anniversary just passed on Jan. 7:
All my skinfolk ain’t kinfolk.
No love in my heart for Love, who has turned her back on those who should be kin.
